ASU-HUST Global Decision Theater Alliance Signed

On the morning of June 1, the establishment of Electronic Decision Theater and the alliance ceremony of HUST and Arizona State University for a global decision theater was held in the College of Public Administration. Chair of HUST committee, Lu Gang and president Rick Shangraw from Arizona State University attended the event.

Lu Gang pointed out that rapid development has been maintained between the Arizona State University and HUST in recent years. The Decision Theater of Arizona State University has more than 60 applied projects and trained many officials in the United States. This will be the goals and directions for our Decision Theatre. HUST will share the projects and data resources with Arizona State University through this framework.

Lu Gang also said with the expansion of Sino-US students exchange, the training and exchanges between their officials will gradually increase as well, so he hoped the two universities could set up a better mechanism to facilitate the exchange through this platform.

In his address, president Rick Shangraw said that electronic decision theater provided us good ideas to cope with current problems such as high complexity, socialization and interdisciplines as well as information asymmetry, communication inefficiency and multi-scheme confusion which challenge the traditional decision-makers. It is an important platform for supporting the scientific and democratic decision-making.

Later, Rick Shangraw and Professor Xu Xiaolin from the College of Public Administration signed the cooperation agreement for an allied global decision theater.

It is understood that the Visdec Electronic Decision Theater located on the third floor of Public Administration College is introduced and established by HUST under the guidance of the Ministry of Education, based on the world's first decision theater - Arizona State University's Decision Theater, and co-constructed with Wuhan Visdec Company. This theater has some amazing hardware such as 8-channel, stereo projection, seamless, 240 degree arc screen. It is currently considered as the most advanced, highest-level decision theater in the world.